Brothers Fred and Otto Vogel migrated from Germany to the U.S. then Mexico in the late 19th or early 20th century. They owned a restaurant business in Mexico, but left again for the U.S. during the Revolution.

Fred and Otto Vogel family's photograph collection consisting of 38 original photographs of family members, their home, restaurant, and scenes in Mexico City, and 74 picture postcards of Mexico City and surrounding cities in the early 1900s.